The art piece above, titled "Matriarch" and a smaller accompanying
piece called "Next of Kin" are made from sculpted fiberglass
covered with wax, leather and blood details that look like human intestines,
tissues and skin.

Hasler, the Zurich, Switzerland-born and now London-based artist, was
commissioned by New Greenham Arts to create a piece for Greenham Common
in Berkshire, England. That site held the Women's
Peace Camp, which was made famous when 30,000 women joined hands around
the perimeter of an American airbase to protest nuclear weapons being
held there. Hasler
explained that "Metaphorically, I am taking the notion of the
tents which were on site during the Women's Peace Camp, as the container
for emotions, and 'humanise' these elements to create emotional surfaces."

The larger of the two tents, according
to Hasler, is a full-sized replica, whereas the other is scaled down
and represents a mother and child relationship. "It’s almost like
I am taking the fabric of the tent, the sort of the nylon element of the
tent, and I make the fabric, this skin layer as sort of the container
for emotion, or sort of the container to hold emotion, as in the skin
holding emotion."

Hasler's art exhibition Embrace
the Base is on view at the Corn Exchange Newbury & New Greenham
Arts through April 11, 2014.